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Article: NASA shuttle heat shield to be made in Middletown
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- Dayton Daily News
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- July 13, 2008
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MIDDLETOWN -- Thanks to a $12 million NASA contract, a local
facility will be manufacturing spacecraft heat shields for the U.S.
government's newest intergalactic project.
Aeronca Inc., located at 2320 Wedekind Drive in Middletown, will
use its honeycomb technology to make the titanium shields for NASA's
Orion shuttle -- an Apollo-style rocket meant to replace the current
shuttle design used today, said Keith Wyman, the company's director
of sales and marketing.
To make the shields, the company will sandwich the brazed
honeycomb alloy between two 16-foot titanium plates and then melt
them together. The honeycomb material is already made in Middletown,
but the titanium will be imported from ...